Utilities in the United Kingdom industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2012-16, and forecast to 2021). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.

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SYNOPSIS

Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the United Kingdom utilities market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

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What was the size of the United Kingdom utilities market by value in 2016?

What will be the size of the United Kingdom utilities market in 2021?

What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the United Kingdom utilities market?

How has the market performed over the last five years?

What are the main segments that make up the United Kingdom's utilities market?

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

The utilities industry consists of the electricity, gas and water markets. The electricity retailing market consists of the net consumption of electricity by end-users, segmented by industrial, transportation, commercial and public services, and residential consumption. The gas utilities market covers all natural gas consumption, net of distribution or transmission losses, by end-users in the following categories: industrial (including use as a feedstock and auto generation), commercial and public-sector organizations, residential consumers, electric power generation (including combined heat and power but excluding auto generation and heat plant), and other (including transport, agriculture, centralized heat plant, and other usage). The water utilities industry consists of all water that is collected, treated and distributed to agricultural, industrial, and residential end-users.

The UK utilities industry is expected to generate total revenues of $196.2bn in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1% between 2012 and 2016.

The electricity segment is expected to be the industry's most lucrative in 2016, with total revenues of $77.4bn, equivalent to 39.5% of the industry's overall value.

Growth is expected to continue in the future, albeit at a lower level, amid steady price increases; EDF announced on December 16, 2016 that prices for 2017 electricity would increase by 8.4%, citing continued cost increases.

Figure 1: United Kingdom utilities industry value: $ billion, 2012-16(e)Figure 2: United Kingdom utilities industry category segmentation: % share, by value, 2016(e)Figure 3: United Kingdom utilities industry geography segmentation: % share, by value, 2016(e)Figure 4: United Kingdom utilities industry value forecast: $ billion, 2016-21Figure 5: Forces driving competition in the utilities industry in the United Kingdom, 2016Figure 6: Drivers of buyer power in the utilities industry in the United Kingdom, 2016Figure 7: Drivers of supplier power in the utilities industry in the United Kingdom, 2016Figure 8: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the utilities industry in the United Kingdom, 2016Figure 9: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the utilities industry in the United Kingdom, 2016Figure 10: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the utilities industry in the United Kingdom, 2016Figure 11: Centrica plc: revenues and profitabilityFigure 12: Centrica plc: assets and liabilitiesFigure 13: Electricite de France (EDF): revenues and profitabilityFigure 14: Electricite de France (EDF): assets and liabilitiesFigure 15: E.ON SE: revenues and profitabilityFigure 16: E.ON SE: assets and liabilitiesFigure 17: United Utilities Group PLC: revenues and profitabilityFigure 18: United Utilities Group PLC: assets and liabilities